Super Smuggling System

Hearing Li Mu's words, the corners of Wei Dayong's mouth twitched obviously, but he still pretended to be listening attentively.

"Quanzhou has two natural conditions, and these two natural conditions are related to this sea." Li Mu pointed to the endless sea in front of him and continued.

"Quanzhou can definitely increase taxes from two aspects. The first is sea transportation. Quanzhou can connect to excellent natural ports and vigorously develop sea transportation, so that you know that the things that come and go on the Silk Road are sold to Datang or Fanbang. They are all very valuable, and Quanzhou can develop the Maritime Silk Road,..."

"Quanzhou can set up a customs department to extract certain taxes from merchant ships passing by on the Maritime Silk Road."

Li Mu has checked the information. The Maritime Silk Road was formed in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but now it is only the early years of the Tang Dynasty. Even when the Maritime Silk Road existed, it was also a small-scale trade.

Quanzhou is very active in developing the Maritime Silk Road, and Li Mu can also get what he wants through this Maritime Silk Road.

If the Maritime Silk Road develops, the wealth that Li Mu absorbs from the Datang plane will increase exponentially, and the source of wealth will not only be limited to the Tang Dynasty, but will become a place where ships can sail.

After listening to Li Mu's Maritime Silk Road, Wei Dayong thought for a while and raised his head to ask questions: "This is a good way, but I, Quanzhou, do not have the ability to build sea-going ships."

"As long as Shijun can find a large number of craftsmen, I will provide the blueprint technology." Li Mu said with a smile. He was waiting for Wei Dayong to say so. Blueprints for crafting wooden ships.

Hearing what Li Mu said, Wei Dayong felt like he had fallen into a pit, but for the sake of Quanzhou, he didn't care about these things, so he asked, "What is the second thing?"

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The second condition!

Li Mu pointed to the sea and said, "It's right here. Cotton candy"

Wei Dayong followed Li Mu's fingers and looked at the boundless sea. After looking at it for a long time, he didn't understand what was so strange about this sea.

"Did Sir mean to let the people of Quanzhou go fishing in the sea?" After thinking for a while, Wei Dayong added: "Or maybe dive into the deep sea to catch the sea oysters to get their pearls? Or coral?"

This is David Dayong's understanding of the sea, and David Dayong's impression of the sea, which is the inexhaustible sea fish, as well as the valuable pearls and corals.

David Dayong doesn't know about the others. If that's all, he doesn't think it's really necessary to bring up the second solution.

Few people who were born by the sea know how to go to sea or sail a boat to fish. Fishing is already a skill brought by seaside people from their mother's womb.

Wei Dayong thought so, he stubbornly believed that Li Mu meant the same thing, out of good intentions, in order to save Li Mu's face, Wei Dayong persuaded him with relief.

"If the second method mentioned by the lord is this, I think it is unnecessary. I can't say that everyone in Quanzhou will go fishing, but I can guarantee that most of the people in Quanzhou are Will go fishing in the sea."

After finishing speaking, he stroked his dark beard, and smiled contentedly: "Even my envoy's hometown is not from Quanzhou, since he took charge of Quanzhou in the past few years, he has learned to understand the nature of water."

"No." Li Mu shook his finger, ignoring Wei Dayong's complacency, and continued, "My lord, if I'm talking about fishing in the sea or fishing for pearls in the sea, then I don't need to talk about the second thing." a way."

"Oh? What method is that?" Wei Dayong asked suspiciously when he saw that what Li Mu said was different from what he thought.

"I don't know if you know, what is the most beneficial thing in this Great Tang? The longest?" Li Mu didn't answer directly but asked a question.

"This?" Wei Dayong thought for a while and said: "The most profitable things in the house are nothing more than the clothes on the people's bodies and the food in their mouths. One of these two things is close-fitting, and the other is indispensable every day, so here The benefits are the most and the longest.”

"It can also be said that, then let me ask the envoy again, besides food, what else is indispensable in the food of the people?" Li Mu asked again.

If Li Mu reminds Wei Dayong to this point and Wei Dayong still can't guess, then he can only be said to be a confused official, or a parental official who only reads and doesn't understand people's sentiments.

"If the Sir said so, it's just salt." Wei Dayong said.

"Yes, it is salt. People cannot do without salt. If they don't eat salt for a day, their bodies will have no strength. But people have to do physical work every day. What they need most is strength. Salt can ensure that people have the energy to do physical work every day. "

"Salt and iron are the most profitable businesses. When there is no more food, people can eat other things, but salt is something that the common people can't find a substitute for. Iron is strictly controlled by the imperial court. It is impossible for Quanzhou to smelt and sell steel without permission. You I dare not do that."

"But salt is different."

Li Mu checked the information of the early years of the Tang Dynasty. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the salt industry was not yet managed by the imperial court, and private production and sales were allowed.

Moreover, the early Tang Dynasty was an era of salt shortage. If salt was sold, the profits would be unimaginable.

"That's the reason, but there are no salt wells in Quanzhou, we can't make salt at all." Wei Dayong wanted to agree with Li Mu's words, but Quanzhou has not found a single edible salt well yet.

"So I'm talking about the sea." Li Mu reminded.

"No, the salt boiled in seawater has many disadvantages, not only the color is poor, the taste is bitter, the quality is inferior, and it is not suitable for consumption at all. profit less than the cost of the charcoal consumed, it is a losing business"

Wei Dayong once thought about making salt from seawater, but he gave up because of the cost. Seeing that Li Mu also said to make salt from seawater, he kindly reminded him.

"Don't worry, since my lord said to use seawater to make salt, there must be a way to make it meet the edible requirements."

Li Mu knows the disadvantages of boiling salt with sea water, and he is not a fool. The Chinese ancestors have been using sea water to boil salt for food since the time of the Yellow Emperor.

It's just that with the change of history, people discovered the well salt method, and the salt obtained by the well salt method is superior to sea salt, so well salt gradually replaced sea salt.

Moreover, Li Mu also knows that when making sea salt, mother liquor will be produced, which can be used in heavy industrial production.

Just imagine, are the things used in heavy industrial production edible by humans?

What's more, Li Mu knew that in the Tang Dynasty, there was no way to extract the mother liquor. He just boiled seawater blindly, and the resulting sea salt was obtained.

In modern times, there are mature technologies and methods. The process of removing the mother liquor can make the sea salt reach the point where people can eat it, plus some other processes.

Li Mu believes that the sea salt he makes will be the best sea salt in Datang.

Why didn't Li Mu bring tons of salt from modern times to Datang? In that case, he wouldn't have to work so hard.

There is no way, Li Mu also wants to bring it, but in modern times, salt is also a controlled material.

Not to mention saving money, even buying a large amount of salt without purpose may be investigated.

In that case, it would be better to just bring the technology and dry the salt in Datang. For this reason, Li Mu brought five thousand tons of high-grade cement.

"Since the Sir has a solution, it is naturally good." Wei Dayong was not happy when he heard that Li Mu had a solution to the problem of Haiyan.

Thinking of making sea salt, you have to get materials nearby, and it is impossible for people to bring seawater into the city to brew it, so Wei Dayong expressed his doubts: "I don't know, where will Sir Sir cook sea salt?"

"It's right here." Li Mu pointed to his camp.

"No." Wei Dayong immediately denied when he heard that Li Mu was going to boil sea salt here.

Seeing Li Mu's puzzled look, he quickly explained.

"My lord doesn't know something. Although Quanzhou is sparsely populated and lacks in supplies, the seaside is often troubled by sea troubles."

"Sea trouble? Is the gentleman talking about the sea breeze?"

"No, sea troubles are actually pirates. There are often pirates who come to harass the Quanzhou seaside, which makes me, the governor of Quanzhou, very troubled. But every time I send troops to encircle and suppress them, they will escape, and these pirates come and go again. Like the wind, when they see the soldiers, they will get on the boat and flee. As time goes by, there is nothing to do with these pirates. In desperation, the envoy had no choice but to let the people move away from the sea, and go to the nearby cities to settle down. It is better to prevent pirates from invading, and secondly, it is easier to manage the Governor's Mansion." Wei Dayong explained the reasons for this.

Hearing that this was the reason, Li Mu laughed loudly and said, "Have you forgotten the things under your feet?"

"Oh?" Wei Dayong, who was slightly taken aback, suddenly understood, and laughed too.

Standing on the Mu Hai, the two laughed loudly, attracting the attention and bewilderment of the subordinates around them.